Teaching College Men About Inequality, Power and Sexism Shouldn’t Be Optional

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'Some will object that requiring students to study gender, power or oppression amounts to ideological instruction—indeed, such an objection lies behind new bans and restrictions on teaching about sex and gender in some states and university systems. But studying an intellectual framework is not the same as accepting its conclusions. Students can be asked to examine contested ideas, consider competing perspectives and develop their own evidence-based judgments. The purpose of teaching about gender inequality, power and sexism is not to produce agreement, but to equip students to understand these forces, question them and exercise judgment about them.
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Still, Cornell should require the three-credit sexual citizenship course its task force proposed and support the faculty needed to teach it. Other universities should look at the curricular structures they already have and make sustained education about gender inequality, power, sexism and the norms that shape sex and relationships part of what every undergraduate is expected to encounter. That education cannot prevent every act of sexual violence, but it can be part of how universities take prevention more seriously.'